Restoran Damansara Hokkien Mee, Damansara Utama

This is a place where I'll pop by whenever I feel like having a quick dinner of hokkien mee as it's nearest to where I stay.

Very popular among those staying at the damansara area, this restaurant is packed nearly every night...

For a plate of their famous hokkien mee Thick noodles dripping with thick sauce, loads of artery clogging fried lard, slices of pork and prawns complete this absolutely sinful meal. I must say that this is a good plate of hokkien mee, just not fantastic. Oh, and eat it while it's hot as it gets rather salty once cooled.

They also serve pork soup.. It's boiled cabbage with fried egg, pork patties and lots of pepper. The pork patties, though soaked in the soup for sometime, were still rather crunchy when I bit into it. Well marinated too. If you like pepper soup, you'll enjoy this. Other favourites includes cantonese fried mee, fried rice and lam mee.

The roasted duck stall shares a spot in this restaurant and it's as popular as the hokkien mee.. Usually, we'll see customers queuing for this delectable duck..As the turnover's really fast, the roasted duck's still warm when served. Still oozing sweet juices from the tender meat, the duck skin was roasted crisp and fragrant. Very tasty. As good as Loong Foong's at Taman Paramount (the sauce at Loong Foong is better though).

Restaurant Damansara Hokkien Mee is located at Jalan 21/37, Damansara Utama, PJ, Selangor.

Prawn Mee@ Sin Kim San Coffeeshop, Penang

I wanted to have the hokkien mee (aka prawn mee) at Jalan Bangkok..

Most unfortunately, it was not open that morning. Francis wanted us to try another famous prawn mee at Jalan Rangoon, when we reached, the stall owner was washing his pots already :-(

Elaine suggested Sin Kim San as she had tried it before, at the other end of Rangoon road.

It was already late in the morning and the weather was rather hot, my urge to have hokkien mee dont seem that appealing anymore...I just wanted to have a cup of cold drink..

Nonetheless, Elaine went ahead and ordered for us while Andrew had charsiew siew yoke rice as his stomach cant take any onslaught of spicy food..

Andrew's rice was served first..

The char siew (bbq pork) was average, a tad on the dry and hard side. I thought the siew yoke (roasted pork) was quite nice, slightly different from those we have in Klang Valley. Their siew yoke was tossed (or did they stir fry?) with dark soy sauce and some sticky sauce (malt sugar?). Maybe I had the crunchy bits and juicy meat, but the texture and flavour reminds me of old style stir fried siew yoke with sugar and dark soy sauce. I like it though andrew didnt..

Soon after, the elusive prawn mee...Eh? What's this? That's not prawn... that's.... mantis prawn!

I am so accustomed to prawn in my prawn mee, so it was a nice change, to see loads of mantis prawns in this bowl instead :-). Dunked in the sambal, give it a good stir and *chomp*! The broth was very sweet, from the prawns (shell) and pork bones. Some of them find it too spicy, though I thought it was just nice. The mantis prawns was very fresh, springy sweet flesh blends well with the spicy broth. There were lots of other ingredients such as sliced pork, shrimps, beansprouts and topped with fried shallots. This combo is delicious and we finished our meal really quickly. And for RM4 per bowl, such value for money!

Sin Kim San Coffeeshop is located at the junction of Macalister and Rangoon road.